Karachi to host Indian champs Mumbai for Nisar Trophy

KARACHI : Pakistan will host the second Nisar Trophy match with Karachi Urban playing Mumbai in a four-day match here next month, an official said Saturday.

"As part of the annual Nisar Trophy match we will host India's Ranji Trophy winners Mumbai who will play our Quaid-Trophy winner in Karachi from 8-11," a Pakistan Cricket Board official told AFP.

Pakistan and India, who in 2004 resumed their high-profile bilateral cricket rivalry after a four-year hiatus amid political tensions, had agreed to stage an annual match between the winners of their respective domestic tournaments.

The match is played in the memory of late Mohammad Nisar who played six Tests for India in the 1930s before migrating to Pakistan in 1950s. He died in Lahore in 1963.

Former Test batsman Hasan Raza will lead the Karachi Urban side which is also likely to include Test batsmen Asim Kamal, Faisal Iqbal and one-day player Fawad Alam.